Its been in the papers today so you might hear rather a lot about richard heene in the coming daytimes.

According to his brother, a six-year-old boy from Fort Collins, Colorado climbed into an experimental balloon he and his dad were building that was tethered in their backyard. He somehow managed to untether the balloon, and became trapped inside the small compartment in the bottom of the balloon when it got too high for him to escape. The result was a bizarre and possibly tragic scene as neighbors watched the homemade balloon float high into the air. The boy was trapped for nearly three hours before the balloon landed, but according to 9News, there is still no sign of the boy. Since then, it has been revealed that the boy trapped in the balloon is the son of a reality show contestant from 'Wife Swap', Richard Heene, who is described in this article as a “mad scientist” type who has dabbled in wild experiments, inventions, ideas, and books. 9News also describes Richard Heene as a storm chaser.

The balloon the 6-year-old boy and son of Richard Heene became trapped in is silver and disc-shaped with a shoddy compartment at the bottom that was not meant for a person to be carried in. It landed near Denver after being airborne for about 3 hours, but there has still been no sign of the boy, despite authorities stating that he was still inside when it landed after slowly deflating. Before the balloon landed, an attempt to rescue the trapped boy by helicopter was being planned by lowering someone down to the balloon and attaching weights to make the balloon slowly lower down. But no interference was needed, as the balloon slowly lowered itself down and landed softly in a dirt field of its own accord. Residents in the area are used to seeing hot air balloons in the sky, but nothing like the homemade craft the poor 6-year-old boy was trapped in.

Unfortunately, as I write this, there has been no news on what happened to Richard Heene's son. Could he have fallen from the craft? Did he run away after it landed? And is there a possibly his brother lied and he was never in it at all? The media is closely following this bizarre and possibly tragic event, so I'm sure we'll all know soon enough. And perhaps “mad scientist” and 'Wife Swap' star Richard Heene has learned a valuable lesson from all of this: don't leave your children around your experiments unattended.

SOURCES: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_boy_in_balloon
http://franksfunnies.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/richard-heene-on-wife-swap/
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=125161&catid=339

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